21 best-selling fiction books like Vermilion (Valentine & Lovelace Mystery #1) by Nathan Aldyne

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Vermilion (Valentine & Lovelace Mystery #1)

By: Nathan Aldyne

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A dead young hustler is found on the lawn of a queer-baiting legislator. Boston's political and que…

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1. The Caterpillar Cop

By: James McClure

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Handsome twelve-year-old Boetie was strangled and stabbed. Was he the victim of a pedophile? On who… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, John Sturrock

2. Sodom and Gomorrah

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock

4.33

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more

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  • fiction
"He lives at Balbec?"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختن‌اش مشکل‌تر است"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازه‌ای برخوردا می‌کند"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

Cover of Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6) by Marcel Proust

3. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)

By: Marcel Proust

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Tremor of Forgery

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under the hot desert sun nothing is quite as it seems. Howard Ingham, an American writer, is sent t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Tooth for a Tooth (DCI Gilchrist, #3) by Frank Muir, T. Frank Muir

5. Tooth for a Tooth (DCI Gilchrist, #3)

By: Frank Muir , T. Frank Muir

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

When a woman's skeleton is discovered in a shallow grave DCI Andy Gilchrist is tasked with finding … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1) by Alan Furst

6. Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)

By: Alan Furst

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is re… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Memorial Hall Murder (Homer Kelly, #3) by Jane Langton

7. The Memorial Hall Murder (Homer Kelly, #3)

By: Jane Langton

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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8. Black House (The Talisman, #2)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4) by Ngaio Marsh

9. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

10. Vulcan's Hammer

By: Philip K. Dick

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Objective, unbiased and hyper-rational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, #1) by John Morgan Wilson

11. Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, #1)

By: John Morgan Wilson

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt

12. A Quiet Place

By: Seichō Matsumoto , Louise Heal Kawai

3.43

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a he… read more

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13. The Expendable Man

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more

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14. The Yellow Canary (LA After Midnight Quartet, #1)

By: Steve Neil Johnson

3.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Los Angeles, 1956. It's a dangerous time to be gay. Nobody knows that better than closeted prosecut… read more

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15. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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16. Hard Rain Falling

By: None , Don Carpenter

4.14

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"

-None, Hard Rain Falling

17. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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18. The Hidden Law (Henry Rios Mystery, #4)

By: Michael Nava

4.04

Format: None pages, ebook

The fourth novel in Michael Nava's award-winning series takes Henry Rios back to his roots when he … read more

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19. The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)

By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The Terra-Cotta Dogopens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned … read more

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20. Full Throttle

By: Joe Hill

4.00

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping groun… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

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22. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By: Alexandra Lange

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more

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"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

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23. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • mystery
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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24. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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25. All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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26. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of Carved in Bone (Henry Rios #2) by Michael Nava

27. Carved in Bone (Henry Rios #2)

By: Michael Nava

4.51

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Was Bill Ryan's death an accident? Henry Rios has his doubts. The first new Henry Rios novel in 20… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
"Your mind lives in fear and regret but your body can only live right now, in this moment. So, take some deep breaths and live in your body. It's a safer place to be than in your head."

-Michael Nava, Carved in Bone (Henry Rios #2)

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28. My Name is Jimmy

By: Garrick Jones

4.34

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1947, James “Jimmy” Bacon becomes involved in a violent workplace altercation fuelled by a PTSD-… read more

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29. The Merriest Misters

By: Timothy Janovsky

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Santa Clause meets Husband Material in this delightful holiday novel!Fixing Christmas? Easy. Fi… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Vermilion (Valentine & Lovelace Mystery #1) by Nathan Aldyne

30. Vermilion (Valentine & Lovelace Mystery #1)

By: Nathan Aldyne

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A dead young hustler is found on the lawn of a queer-baiting legislator. Boston's political and que… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
Cover of Rough Pages (Evander Mills, #3) by Lev A.C. Rosen

31. Rough Pages (Evander Mills, #3)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

4.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Private Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has been drawn back to the Lavender House estate for a missi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer

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4.18

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